Example sentences of "i did [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few weeks later I did exactly that . |
| 2 | I was in charge of what is known as the governor , which I felt might be an error , but I did exactly as I was told and all went well . |
| 3 | ‘ I did exactly the same thing last year in LA , ’ he revealed . |
| 4 | I did exactly as I had promised . |
| 5 | Once I had started to work with the children , I did exactly what I would have done with older children — or adult learners . |
| 6 | I did exactly what she said . |
| 7 | It would be hypocritical to describe myself as this new creature as I did no make a conscious effort to share our son on a 50/50 basis . |
| 8 | At my best I did no better than average . |
| 9 | However , I did slightly disarrange the lower part of that tablecloth in order to ascertain the core temperature . |
| 10 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 11 | When I did eventually look in the mirror my hair was in patches , like little bits of baby hair . |
| 12 | Stoner in fact discovered , as I did eventually , that asking the obvious , straightforward things that worried opponents of nuclear power often got much more interesting answers than any attempt to confront the technicalities . |
| 13 | But my real ambition was to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , which I did eventually . ’ |
| 14 | Which er I did eventually get on to and was a convenor for quite a number of years . |
| 15 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 16 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 17 | I did pretty good at it too . |
| 18 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 19 | This , like everything else to do with food and dieting , I did secretly and guiltily , without confiding in anyone . |
| 20 | At that time I did n't pause to wonder if he 'd realized exactly what he 'd taken on when he first became involved with Nigel 's funeral arrangements ; I did later , and often , with deep and loving gratitude . |
| 21 | I did later show Rowse an essay of mine , but this was not a personal onslaught . |
| 22 | ( He did not remark , but I did later , that if anyone truly deserved the title of ‘ egg-head ’ , it was Belgion , with his huge bald , smooth , oval-shaped head . ) |
| 23 | Er it yes it it 's true to tell , gone on record on several occasions saying in terms of environmental capacity there 's the potential within Selby district to accommodate eleven and a half thousand dwellings , however I did later qualify those comments with reference to the emerging local plan , which is the main vehicle we 've we 've got for identifying potential development sites and the the qualification was that was that land is not necessarily available in in the right places , to enable us to make a a reasonable distribution for development in accordance with P P G advice , so that the question of a new settlement remains an extremely attractive option for Selby District , and as I mentioned this morning , in terms of whi we would be approximately eight hundred and fifty dwelli whi we would be approximately eight hundred and fifty dwellings short , in any case , erm |
| 24 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |
| 25 | And it was true , I did and er , and I did reasonably well at most of the games that I play but er I played cricket for St John 's and I played when I was in the army at this last time and er , and erm , you , you know it 's I , I think if you make up your mind and you 're fit enough . |
| 26 | I did easily lose a stone and a half , but then I thought : I do n't want him anyway . |
| 27 | Erm I thought I 'd tell you a bit about what I did apart from medicine . |
| 28 | I suppose I did strictly speaking . " |
| 29 | comment like I did probably , I did n't mean it or anything . |
| 30 | No , I 've had 2 other books published er previously by the same publishers , er one was in Berkshire , one was in Hampshire , very much along the same sort of lines , er I think the longest walk I did probably would be about sort of 7 or 8 miles with those , er just as , you know , er the walks in , in , in this particular book are no more than 7 or 8 miles . |